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What are your (favourite) recipes for cooking ham ? My family had used the following for generations and most folks we feed the result to seem to think offers significant improvement of the standard method. Use smoked or plain ham to preference. First prepare you ham by making small slits in opposite sides or ends with a very sharp knife. Then insert a sliver of fresh garlic clove into each slit, as deeply as practicable. Follow this up by inserting one or two cloves into each slit, tailend inwards. These are removed after cooking. Place the treated ham in a pot deep enough to cover with cold water and place on stove. Add a rounded desert spoon of soft brown sugar to the water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 1 hour per kg. Do not over cook. Once cooked the ham can be removed to stand. The ham water can be used to add extra flavour to vegetables such as cabbages, carrots and so on. Most folks are pleasnatly suprised when they come across this last bit.

One of my favourite childhood memories is that of pea and ham soup based on a 4lb ham shank slow-cooked in 1lb of marrowfat peas. I found a recipe at https://foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/lancashire-pea-and-ham-soup which is very much how my mother and grandmothers used to make it. Having said that, I roast a cheap ham shank we'd picked up at Tesco's a couple of weeks ago. The resulting ham and mustard sandwiches were gorgeous!

The use of ham stock in soups etc is fairly standard. This seems to be an extension of that principle. My favourite ham recipe is a ham and parsley terrine, in which smoked ham is simmered with carrot, onion, leek, celery and parsley stalks, allowed to cool and cut and torn into small chunks. These are mixed with mustard, a chopped raw shallot, some vinegar and quite a lot of chopped parsley and put in a terrine dish. One then strains and seasons the stock in which the ham was cooked, adds gelatine and pours over the ham mixture. This is allowed to set. It can be cut into slices to serve but the tricky bit is getting enough gelatine so it does not fall to pieces, without it becoming too rubbery. Best cut when cold from the fridge, but should be allowed to come to room temp before eating so the flavour can develop. The French call it jambon persillée. But my recipe comes from an Italian recipe book.

This notion seems to underlie some of the bad faith arguments we see in politics: “if you can’t 100% fix a problem then I won’t support it” followed by standing/voting against incremental improvements. Poverty (for example) will always be with us, but that’s not a valid excuse for doing nothing to improve the situation.

The first is more of a philosophy question (metaphysics), but dark energy appears to be a property of spacetime. Any kind of “is it possible” question has to be addressed in terms of what mainstream science says. If you have a different model, you need evidence to support it. With mainstream science there’s always the possibility of some better model, but of what value is an alternative model if there’s no evidence to support it? So “is it possible” doesn’t add much to the discussion. Does it violate any known laws? If no, then it’s possible. But if you don’t have the alternative theory in place, so what? Gravity could be due to invisible fairies, but since there’s no testable model for that, we don’t waste time entertaining the notion.

In curved spacetimes, measurements of spatial distance, just like measurements of time, generally depend on the observer, because those are not tensorial quantities. Only spacetime intervals are. This is well understood, and the mathematics of differential geometry on Riemann manifolds predate GR. Exactly where is the problem with this?

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You have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe you should study basic biology before commenting on a subject that you don't even understand, although I suppose that would be expecting too much from your typical redneck bigot who probably didn't even graduate high school. Whether you personally understand someone's identity or not is irrelevant. That is not for you to decide or dictate. People choose their OWN identity. All they matters is how they IDENTIFY. Now you can claim that's "morally wrong" and you can claim that it "woke" or that it goes against you "personal values", but ultimately nobody asked you and nobody cares about your opinion.